Charlotte can work miracles...

Here s an amusing shot of me and my lovely hairdresser Charlotte -i seem to have a strange spike growing out the top of my head -but thankfully it s gone now.Oh we did laugh.....

my final deadline.....

Yup,I m sort of winding down work wise before the summer holidays kick in and my last project has been the Snap print exchange.Here they are in all there glory-40 little beauties to be hung with the good and the great.It s called Australian birds unaware they d flown to Saffron Walden.No idea why i chose Saffron Walden.....

horns a plenty...

My husband went to the World Cup in South Africa and all he brought me back was this lousy collection of vuvezelas...

Feeling hot hot hot...

Well look at that -I ve not been going much more than a week and i ve got 2 lovely followers-thank you mystery people!

It s been scorching hot again today.Scorching hot means my lovely gold Dune sandals.Here they are in all their goldbaubliness (excuse the chipped nailpolish).

I am having to crack on with my piece for the Snap print exchange.Snap are a great little printmakers co operative based in Bristol city centre .I have been asked to take part with 24 other printmakers including Anna Marrow,Simon Tozer, Lucie Sheridan,Johnny Hannah and Katy Chard.I need to print a no smoking sign for the shop and so i ve got this thing about a cat smoking going round in my head.And then i remembered i d seen this fabulous vintage matchbox illustration-DAMN !!!Back to the drawing board....

A strange and beautiful day....

Mmmm,the day didn t start promisingly.Awoken by my cat,Hilary,being sick onto my bed at about 2. 30 a.m.Not nice.

Then Ruby ,my 9 year old said she was off colour and would definately need a day off school.She doesn t look too bad does she ?We had to go to the print studio to print the Father s day portraits and they ve turned out well.Ruby was a bit disappointed at how much washing,scrubbing and wiping was involved with printmaking.Aren t we all.Anyway,what could any father want more on father s day than 2 pictures of him by his children and a giant bar of toblerone.?

I have been featured in Artists and Illustrators magazine this month.It s a small questions and answers column about my show at the Rostra in Bath.I thought i was witty enough.

Got to retire to bed now-an awful camping trip is looming -I HATE CAMPING- it messes with your head.All that scrabbling around on the floor and the deafening dawn chorus-moan,grumble,winge.Well atleast you get to eat marshmallows .........

Hip hip hoorah

Well , here I am again .I should be ironing,making packed lunches and catching up on Junior Apprentice but I need to blog.Much excitement today -my lovely friend Chitra Merchant,a fine and talented printmaker has had a print accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.Here are a few of her wonderful pieces.She s moving in to Fig this month and we ll be very happy to have her in our little shop.Unless she outsells me ofcourse and then there will be trouble.....